Are we about to experience a “Restuarant Recession”? According to Analysts who are forecasting such a thing and claim it will be bad news for America’s food and drink establishments and potentially even worse news for the economy at large. This report comes from Paul Westra, who is a senior research analyst at Stifel Financial Corp., said in a research note Tuesday that he’d turned “decidedly bearish” on the restaurant industry, downgrading Stifel’s stance on 11 different restaurant stocks, including Chipotle Mexican Grill, Panera Bread and Cheesecake Factory.
Excerpt From US News:
He and his colleagues now “confidently believe” that the weak restaurant consumer spending seen in the second quarter of the year “reflects the start of a U.S. restaurant recession.” “The catalyst for the current weak pre-recessionary restaurant spending trend is likely multifaceted – U.S. politics, terrorism, social unrest, global geopolitics, economic uncertainty,” Westra said. “But, if history is a guide, we warn investors that restaurant-industry sales tend to be the ‘canary that lays the recessionary egg.'”
Me and my family can barely afford groceries let alone go spend 100$ on dollar and I’m pretty sure that’s most of the country right now o and thanks Obama people can’t afford health insurance anymore since u gave us oghettocare u sob
Going out to eat I mean